Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 178

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
 Abigail Adams
The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock.
 Maria Bartiromo
You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
 Knut Hamsun
“Come back with your shield, or upon it.”
 Spartan Mother
My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.
 Eli Wallach
It is brave to be involved
 Gwendolyn Brooks
When I lost my father, I thought I learned about grief and transition. However, nobody tells you what it's like to lose your mother. They don't tell you that you're going to feel like an orphan at whatever age you are as an adult.
 Sandra Cisneros
Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.
 Robert Lowell
Acting time is like flight time: You can work on a simulator, you can rehearse, but unless you\'re really in front of the camera or on a stage - that\'s when you really learn how to work it.
Acting time is like flight time: You can work on a simulator, you can rehearse, but unless you're really in front of the camera or on a stage - that's when you really learn how to work it.
 John Kapelos
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.
I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.
 David Axelrod
Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
 Alice Hoffman
When you grow up, your heart dies.
 Ally Sheedy
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.
 Alan Moore
Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.
... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
 Bertolt Brecht
There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.
There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.
 Piers Morgan
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.